What’s New in WatchOS 4 for App Developers

As we recently heard Apple is bringing a new version of its smart watch, WatchOS 4. WatchOS 4 brings more brilliance and fitness features to Apple Watch.

“Apple Watch is the ground breaking device for a healthy life and is now more imaginative than ever with WatchOS 4,” said Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer.

Apple today revised WatchOS 4, featuring a Siri watch face that shows the information clients need today the most, smart Activity coaching and a completely new music experience. The new features have enhanced Workout app and introduce Gym Kit, an innovative technology that offers clients to be connected to their cardio equipment. Reminders and Wallet are new headlines of the new Apple News app for Apple Watch. With each raise of the wrist, the data on the screen actively updates based on the time of day, daily routines and information from apps such as breath, Alarms, activity, Maps etc.

Fitness

Every morning, the customer will receive a notification if they’re close to earning an Achievement or suggest what they can do to enhance more than yesterday’s activity levels. If required, toward the end of the day, the user will be told exactly how long they need to walk to close their Activity Rings before the day is over. Customers will also get Monthly Challenges designed just for them.

With WatcheOS 4, users doing back-to-back workouts can combine multiple workouts to capture overall calorie loss and time. First time in history information not previously communicated between a smart watch and fitness machine will sync now including calories burned, distance, speed, decline, incline — resulting in the most accurate calculations.

Watch Faces and Bands

Now in addition to the Siri watch face, new Toy Story watch faces deliver amazing characters including Woody, Jessie and Buzz Lightyear and the Kaleidoscope watch face turns static images into different fascinating patterns. Apple also delivers new summer band colors’ giving customers more options to choose as per their personal style.

Payments with Apple Pay

WatchOS 4, Apple Watch customers can make and receive any kind of payments quickly person to person, easily and securely with friends, family or any one with Apple Pay within Messages or with the help of Siri. As soon as the customer gets paid, they receive the money in their new Apple Pay Cash account and can use it instantly to send to someone or make purchases using Apple Pay in stores and apps or transfer it to their bank account.

With wide system improvements in WatchOS 4, Developer’s apps will be faster and more responsive than ever before. Create a better customer experience with UI improvements, including help for full screen apps and overlapping layers that support your apps to show text over video animations and you can also give app permission for location usage right on Apple watch. Information’s can be directly sent to Apple watch so users can make adjustments.